Informative Essay: What Is Tennis A Sport?

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Tennis should be traced back to the times of ancient Greek and Roman. It's popular at the time called "handball" things in a way that is deemed to be straightened to a rope as the net. Then use a full bag of hair sets live palms, of course, which is called the racket, then evolve into a wooden racket---- now all kinds of racket.

The sport originated in the French court, but in the tenth century, the French King Louis IV forbidden playing tennis, because he believes it's undignified for his citizen to play. However, the high demand continued popularity among the people, to the thirteenth century when Louis V prohibited again, but this time the reason is that he feels it should be the only royal family can play tennis game. In the thirteenth …show more content…

and it began popular gradually in France, the UK and other European regions. And the technique and devices have been significantly improved such as the original rope into the net was far from now. Also racket strings have been improved of their tenacity. Therefore tennis began to become more competitive in the sport, of course, began to have some bets behavior. While gambling was banned increasingly, there until the nineteenth century, it has become popular, but it is only limited to the upper class or wealthy …show more content…

The components of a tennis racquet include a handle, known as the grip, connected to a neck which joins a roughly elliptical frame that holds a matrix of tightly pulled strings.

As a modern material carbon fibre are use extensively in making the most of professional racquets. It's keep racquet lightweight and stiff and also benefit for those player who's playing longtime matches. And the ball looks like baseball but smaller with green color. Typically they are made of hollow rubber with a felt coating.

manners of play
Tennis is played on flat surface, usually grass, clay or a hardcourt of concrete. The court is 78 feet(23.77m) long, and 27 feet(8.23 m) wide for singles matches and 36 ft (10.97 m) for doubles matches.
The scoring of tennis are divided into 3 parts. They are Game Set and Match. a. In the part of game the scores from zero to three points are described as "love", "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty" respectively. A set consist of a sequence of games. And so on the match consist of the sets. Anyway the result of a match is depense on how many points of each players got and the player who obtain the highest points finally the

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